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Los Angeles Based Premiere Entertainment Group has bolstered its Toronto sales slate with wordwide rights to horror-thriller Beneath Us starring Lynn Collins and James Tupper

The film follows a group of undocumented workers hired by an affluent woman and her husband to work on their house.

By the time the labourers sense something is not right with their employers, they realize they have become prisoners inside the home.

Max Pachman directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Mavrothalastis. Luis Guerrero and Chris Lemos produced Beneath us for Vital Pictures, while Jay Hernandez served as executive producer.

“We are excited to be teaming up with Luis and Chris on their unique and original elevated genre film,” Premiere president and CEO Elias Axume said. “Similar to Get out, the film intelligently deals with pertinent social issues in a suspenseful manner.”

Guerrero and Lemos added, “We’re very excited to partner with Premiere Entertainment Group, and look forward to a successful relationship towards the selling our film.” Axume negotiated the deal with Guerrero and Lemos.

Gravitas Ventures will release the film in North America on November 10 under the title Amanda & Jack Go Glamping.

Arquette is currently filming family drama Saving Flora, while Acker will next be seen in the Marvel TV series The Gifted.

“We are so pleased to see this film get out there in the world, using humour to speak to a universal quest to find the balance and harmony in relationships, and ultimately happiness,” Sutherland said. “The grass is not always greener on the other side of the donkey fence.”

“It’s the perfect date night movie,” Premiere’s vice-president of development and acquisitions said. “The audience will find themselves immersed in the story and cheering for Arquette’s character to save his marriage.

Premiere Entertainment president and CEO Elias Axume and Carlos Rincon negotiated the deal with producers Sutherland and Kirr.

“This is a dark and riveting cop thriller with a big twist,” said Premiere Entertainment vice-president of development and acquisitions Carlos Rincon. “The director made exceptional use of the desolate location by turning it into an epic landscape that transforms itself into a menacing character.”

Skyler Mednick added: “Working with some of the team from 300 we succeeded in getting the same level of production quality that we bring to our much larger studio projects. This allowed us to elevate the quality of filmmaking in Devil’s Gate above what is typical of smaller genre pictures.”

President and CEO of Premiere Entertainment Group Elias Axume and Rincon brokered the deal with Mednick.

Effects artist Fulvio Sestito wrote the screenplay and makes his feature directorial debut.

Rebecca Berrih and Martine Melloul of Elysian Fields Entertainment produced with Evan Cholfin.

Encounter will screen in 4K and joins a Premiere slate that includes the Scott Adkins thriller Incoming; thriller You Were Never Here starring Mireille Enos and Sam Shepard; drama Run The Tide starring Taylor Lautner; and family title Breaking Brooklyn with Louis Gossett Jr and Nathan Kress.

“We are proud to be introducing Encounter to the foreign buyers in Cannes,” Premiere Entertainment vice-president of development and acquisitions Carlos Rincon said.

“The film features terrific VFX and promises to keep everyone on the edge of their seat.”

Premiere president and CEO Elias Axume and Rincon negotiated the deal with producers Berrih and Melloul.

Doctor Strange actor Scott Adkins has been tapped as the lead in Benattar/Thomas Productions’ sci-fi action thriller Incoming, with helmer Eric Zaragoza making his film directorial debut. XLrator Media has secured the North American distribution rights to the film, which is currently in production in Belgrade, Serbia. Jorge Saralegui wrote the screenplay, based on an original story by Rick Benattar, Nigel Thomas and Jorge Saralegui, about an International Space Station that now serves as a prison. When the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Adkins, repped by BWH, Link, and Gersh, plays a rogue CIA agent who has his own plans for the station and the terrorists within. The film is financed by the UK’s Sharp House Foreign. Sales will be handled by Premiere Entertainment Group. Rick Benattar and Nigel Thomas are producing alongside Premiere’s Elias Axume and Red Production’s Milos Dukelic. Executive producers are XLrator’s Barry Gordon and Michael Radiloff, and Sharp House’s Ian Sharp, Rebecca Joerin-Sharp and Emma Dutton.

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Becker directs the story of a homeless dancer and his brother.

Premiere Entertainment Group (PEG) has acquired international sales rights to the family holiday film Breaking Brooklyn.

Louis Gossett Jr and newcomer Colin Critchley, Nathan Kress and Madeleine Mantock star in the story about a homeless young dancer and his brother who are taken in by an old Broadway showman when their father is arrested.

When one of the young men learns that their new guardian could lose his theatre, they enter a dance contest to save it.

“We’re very excited to be introducing this project to the foreign buyers at the AFM,” said Premiere Entertainment CEO Elias Axume. “Director Camille Thoman has crafted a deeply psychological thriller with a compelling cast and the mysterious performance art world of New York City as an atmospheric backdrop. We knew this was a special film and we were eager to be a part of it.”

“I am thrilled to be sharing this story of the blurred lines between aggressor and victim, madness and sanity,” said Thoman. “I could not be more proud of the tremendous work that the stellar cast, crew and producing team have done and cannot wait for the world to witness Mireille Enos’ layered, luminous performance.”

Dodson added: “Every frame of Camille Thoman’s film overflows with her hypnotic vision and perspective. The whole cast is fantastic, including the legendary Sam Shepard, and my dear friend Mireille Enos continues to push boundaries as an actress.

“She’s captivating and smart and raw here in a way that very, very few actresses could pull off. Zachary Quinto and I are proud to have championed this film, the cast, the whole team, and Camille as a brave new filmmaker.”

Axume and Premiere director of development and acquisitions Tony Piantedosi brokered the deal with the producers.

The story is inspired by the true story of students at the private Choate Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut who attempted to smuggle $300,000 of cocaine into the country. IFC will distribute in the US on March 18.

Tony Piantedosi, director of development and acquisitions at Premiere Entertainment Group, brokered the deal with Schultz and ICM Partners.

Premiere Entertainment svp of sales and acquisitions, Jack Campbell, who brokered the deal, said: “This true account takes the viewer on a wild ride of building a drug empire as an outsider at a stuffy prep school and reaping the extraordinary rewards as well as the tumultuous consequences.”

Family drama We Don’t Belong Here from Peer Pedersen stars Catherine Keener, Anton Yelchin, and Kaitlyn Dever in the story of a girl who investigates her family’s past to better understand her brother’s odd behaviour and uncovers a sinister secret.

Production has wrapped on in-house adventure Papa directed by Bob Yari and starring Giovanni Ribisi and Minka Kelly, as well as action film The Night Crew starring Luke Goss and Bokeem Woodbine.

The company is in post-production on survival thriller Abandoned starring Dominic Purcell, while the pre-production pipeline includes revenge drama Resolute with Carrie-Anne Moss and Juan Felipe Orozco’s sci-fi Ordeal.

EXCLUSIVE: Survival thriller is set to start shooting in New Zealand this week and stars Dominic Purcell.

Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to Abandoned.

The survival thriller is directed by John Laing and stars Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell. It is set to start shooting in New Zealand this week.

Based on a true story, Abandoned centres on four men who face almost certain death when their yacht capsizes.

The deal was brokered by Elias Axume, CEO of Premiere, and Grant Bradley on behalf of the producers.

Premiere Entertainment’s svp Jack Campbell commented: “We’re extremely excited to introduce this film to the worldwide market. Survival stories have always been a very commercial and sought after genre and this one really delivers. We cannot wait to show buyers a sneak peek promo at the Cannes Film Festival in May.”

Abandoned is being produced by TVNZ by James Heyward, Liz DiFiore, Grant Bradley & Dale Bradley, with finance from New Zealand On Air.

Steven Seagal is back in action with the Premiere Entertainment Group thriller Code of Honor, which has just started rolling in Salt Lake City, Utah. The story follows a special forces colonel who returns from a Middle East tour. Noticing that his home town has disintegrated into a violent world run by murderers and narco-terrorists, the colonel takes the situation into his own hands by entering the shadow world. No one can stop him, except for maybe an old teammate.

The film is written and directed by Michael Winnick and also stars Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It) and Helena Mattsson (Iron Man 2). Ryan Noto, president of Premiere Entertainment, is producing as well as CEO Elias Axume.

Writer-director Stephen Belber’s comedic drama Match has been acquired by Premiere Entertainment Group, which will handle foreign sales beginning this week in Toronto. Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard star as a Seattle couple who travel to New York to interview a beloved but somewhat hermitic ballet instructor (Patrick Stewart), and during the course of the talk the true motive behind the visit begins to emerge. David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick Rosenthal produced, and David P. Beitchman, Adam Brawer, Lawrence M. Kopelkin, Chris Mangano, and Nick Morton exec produced. ICM Partners, which reps Belber, repped the filmmakers in the deal.

Premiere Entertainment Group has picked up foreign sales rights to the crime thriller 7 Minutes and will Premiere Entertainmenttake it to Toronto. Written and directed by Jay Martin, the pic stars Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Kris Kristofferson, Leven Rambin and Zane Holtz in the story of three desperate friends who are forced to commit a brazen robbery, which quickly goes horribly wrong. 7 Minutes is produced by Jacob Aaron Estes, Jacob Mosler and Rick Rosenthal, with Nick Morton and Jim Hart serving as exec producers.

Premiere Entertainment has come on board to handle worldwide sales at Cannes on the Brendan Fraser family comedy.

Alex Wolff, Parker Posey and Julia Garner also star in the story about the unlikely friendship between two college freshmen – one a 14-year-old genius and the other a 40-something former gambler.

Billy Kent directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sarah Bird and Adam Wierbianski.

Senior vp Jack Campbell acquired HairBrained, which screens in the market on May 20. “We’re very excited to be taking HairBrained to Cannes this year,” said Campbell. “It’s a well-made, star-driven, lighthearted comedy, which rounds out our slate quite nicely.”

EXCLUSIVE: Premiere Entertainment Group has received plenty of attention on action thriller The Outsider starring Jason Patric, James Caan, Craig Fairbrass and Shannon Elizabeth.

Senior vp of sales and acquisitions Jack Campbell announced that the Los Angeles-based sales company has licensed rights to VVS for Canada, DDDream for China, Eagle for the Middle East and Daro for Eastern Europe and CIS.

EXCLUSIVE: Elias Axume and svp of sales and acquisitions Jack Campbell will talk up the thriller, which has started shooting and stars Jason Patric, James Caan, the UK’s Craig Fairbrass and Shannon Elizabeth.